Old People Read This Now!

If you, like me, are old (and by old we mean over 27) you may have partaken in some old school LCD gaming handheld action. You may also be prone to a little nostalgia for that experience. If that's the case, then you may just love Flee, an shameless attempt to capitalise on said nostalgia.

You can get Flee on the Android marketplace right now, or check out the free 'lite' version.

Check out the developer commentary below!

Comments

EzyLee Guest

Nov 15, 2010, 11:33am

Oh awesome! As it was opening I had a flashback to pressing on the screens of these games to reveal the areas that have the graphics. Then bingo... it's a feature of the game. Well played.

It gave me memories of an old game I had (I wonder if its in any boxes at my mums) It was a large black handheld racing game, it used red cars (with real lights behind them) but everything was mechanical in it. to move you car, it had a wheel on it, which must have had a radio tuner style belt drive in it. God, I hope I looked after it, I'm sure it would be uber collectible now.... Also, I loved pulling things apart as a kid, I hope I didn't. :/

Hey man, I'm 20 and not only did I have all those games that you got at McDonalds and Red Rooster and such, I also had a large collection of Game & Watch games and also this one Star Wars Gameboy thing where it came with three or four cartridges which had screens on them and you put them in to play.

Sadly most of them have now gone missing or no longer work.
I guess we have G&W Collection nowadays but the feeling isn't quite the same.

That's too advanced. I actually had a LED game. Baseball II. A row of red LEDs would simulate the ball thrown by the pitcher (you could select fastball, screwball or curve) and if your opponent could hit the BAT button at the right time, the LEDS all over the field would light until one was left lit (either on a field player and you were out, or on a single, double, triple or home run)

Heh, I remember I had a Batman one, a Jurassic Park one, and one where you played as some buff bald guy wearing Aladdin pants and you just had to shoot hadoukens at anything that got in your way. And the first stage boss was basically a cacodemon from Doom. I never beat him though. =(

Loved these so much as a kid (and who am I kidding, I still do). I had a pretty decent collection, including a Sonic one with a 10-second looping soundtrack so irritating it's still burned into my brain, but the best of the bunch was a multi-cartridge system that projected the games onto a wall!

If anyone has a functioning copy of Climax- a plumbing LCD with a blue case where you jumped between 3 danger positions and 1 safety, fixing the intermittently leaking pipes- and are willing to part with, please let me know.

Story time! I went to an all-girls’ school. My friends and I had that special bond of closeness that apparently comes with synced-up periods and measuring the length of each other’s winter leg hair.
This, obviously, led to a brief era of trying to catch one of the others unawares with the most impressive, most unexpected spank possible. We’re talking sneaking up behind each other in the hallway and laying one down that made the earth shake. If I couldn’t read your palm from the imprint, you weren’t doing a good enough job.